In signing this petition, I am protesting Governor Paterson's proposed budget cuts that would in turn close valued state parks. I support alternative means of cutting the state budget that do not include the closure of our low-cost and revenue producing parks throughout the state, which provide a resource for our communities access to healthy, affordable, family-oriented recreation that, with said access from the public, generate spending within New York that would surely be dirven elsewhere in the Northeast, if the parks close.